Sebastian Horsley Quotes

• Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  "The agony and the ecstasy" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.

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• Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Lying, Expectations, Unhappy

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Personality, Together, Littles

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• An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

  Sebastian Horsley

  Pain, Artist, Blood

  "Horsley's cross is a painful one to bare" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Self Esteem, Self Pity, Narcotics

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• You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Stars, Men, Evil

  "Farewell Sebastian Horsley: a true bohemian" by Emily Hill, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Hate, Dislike Me, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.

  Sebastian Horsley

  People, Listening, Noise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Hands, Lovers, Calculators

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• But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

  Sebastian Horsley

  Awful, Happens, Seems

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• The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Drug, Awful, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Growing Up, Interesting, Horrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Curves, Bentley, Bike

  Interview with Jessica Berens, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

  Sebastian Horsley

  People, Obsessed, Invigorating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• […] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

  Sebastian Horsley

  Abortion, Misery, Life Is

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Historical, Age, Growing

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Greatness, People, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Half

  "Sebastian Horsley died of heroin and cocaine overdose", www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Girl, Moss, Rich

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Make Me Happy, Wanted, One Thing

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• I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Mother, Character, Men

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Book, Littles, Worthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Mirrors, Looks, Environment

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• We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Character, Abyss

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Inspirational, Motivation, Artist

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.292, Hachette UK

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